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From: stan@clyde.UUCP (Stan King)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: RE: IBM-ASCII-C-Etc
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Date: Sun, 13-May-84 21:08:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 13 21:08:18 1984
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I'm not sure whether this point is clearly understood by the
participants of net.arch: the USASCII-8 mode bit of the System/360 PSW
was used ONLY for determining the representation of decimal results.

NOTHING else in the hardware architecture makes assumptions about
character set.  I welcome people to prove me wrong, by mail, and I
will summarize replies.  I am wearied by statements that "IBM is an
EBCDIC machine"; it is so, but only for the purposes of the decimal
(radix=10) instructions.

My point of reference is GA22-7000-4, File No. S/370-01, Sept. 1974.

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